Arma 2 is a shit sandwich in many ways and pure gold in many others. Unfortunately, even if I'm finding gold nuggets in said shit sandwich, I'm still eating far too much shit for it to be worth the trouble.
What I'm saying is that in my opinion games such as Arma 2 would sell better, be more widely played and widely respected if they were released with some goddamn polish.
Yes, I realise Bohemia Interactive are a small team making massively innovative games (Arma 2's AI and open world is mindblowing, truly) but there is no excuse for needing 8 bloody clicks and mouse scrolls and all other manner of things to give my squad an order to "GO OVER THERE"
Games like Arma 2 are MADE by their CORE MECHANICS. How does the shooting feel, the running, maneuvering, etc. The reason people play Arma is for that very reason, excellent core mechanics.
But once you go beyond the core moving aiming shooting stuff, the game becomes labyrinthe and needlessly so at that.
If the game took the radial menus of the console Rainbow Six titles and the new Op Flashpoint and used things like that in place of its current scroll click scroll left click right click scroll blah blah blah blah system, it would improve tenfold immediately.
The radial menu system in itself is probably often percieved as being "casual" by the Arma crowd, but the system itself isn't casual, just the context and usage.
Things like this would go a long way towards games like Arma being viable as a playable game for people aside from hardcore simulation guys.
They may be able to put up with inpenetrable interfaces, but the rest of us demand a little more polish from our games.
I should not have to jump through hoops to PLAY the damn game.
So someone needs to make the game I have just described and THEN point it out to this dude.
PS rainbow six vegas' radial menu system integration really was a thing of beauty
